1572 Margauerite de Valois by Francois Clouet(?) Istituto Geografico De Agostini?)This lower quality portrait shows Marguerite de Valois wearing a jeweled hat and dress with high enclosing neckline and neck ruff. This is from later in the century based on the fully puffed sleeves and necklaces. This portrait is almost Elizabethan. The bodice has a distinct central part, a stomacher, framed by vertical sections that are distinct from the rest of the bodice - revers. In this case, the…

“Langdon and Sienna sprang into motion again—although probably only delaying the inevitable—shuffling backward on all fours into the second cavern, which was smaller, deeper, and darker. It, too, was dominated by a central piece of art—in this case, a statue of two intertwined lovers—behind which Langdon and Sienna now hid anew.” - chapter 29